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Near the center of Stonehenge in England is the so-called Altar Stone, a six-ton, rectangular chunk of red sandstone. Legend holds that the wizard Merlin magically transported it there from Ireland.
Using chemical analysis, researchers have now pinpointed the stone’s source to the Orcadian Basin in northeast Scotland. To reach its current location, it would have had to have traveled at least 465 miles by land or more than 620 miles if it came by sea. But how?